Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 P.M. Saturday at First United Methodist Church in Mt. Pleasant with Rev. Phillip Wright, Rev. Eugene Barrett, and Rev. Elmer Crosby officiating. Burial will be in Arlington Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Friday from 3:00 – 9:00 P.M. at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home and Saturday after 12:00 P.M. at the church.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society in honor of his late great niece, Amy Brawner, P. O. Box 1212, Columbia, TN 38402. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com.

Born in Gordonsburg, Tennessee, the Mt. Pleasant native was the son of the late John Orlando and Gladys Grissom Williams. He was a graduate of Columbia Military Academy, Vanderbilt University, earned his Medical Degree at University of Tennessee and did post-graduate work at St. Thomas Hospital. He served ten years in the U. S. Marines Corps, was a Captain, and received Silver Star for Bravery in Action in the Korean War.

Dr. Williams was in family practice in Mt. Pleasant for thirty years, later practicing medicine in Columbia for ten years. He served as the company physician for Stauffer Chemical Company for thirty years and served as Chief Physician for Columbia Military Academy for several years. He served as State Medical Director of Volunteer Health Plan, HMO, Nashville for one year, was the first Medical Director of Workers Compensation Division with the Tennessee Department of Labor, helped organize and participated in pilot program of case management for Medicaid for three years, was the first Medical Director of the Ambulatory Care Center in Columbia in 1995; the first Medical Director of the Lewis Ambulatory Care Center in Hohenwald in 1996, and the first Medical Director of Northside Medical Center in Columbia from 1997 – 1999. He was associated with Core Physicians from 1999 – 2002 where he is Physician Emeritus.

Very active in civic affairs, Dr. Williams was a founder and the first President of the Mt. Pleasant Country Club and the Mt. Pleasant Little League, and was former Mayor of the City of Mt. Pleasant.

He had served as Chief of Staff at Maury Regional Hospital, President of Maury County Medical Society, President of Tennessee Academy of Family Physicians, Chairman of Legislature Committee for Tennessee Academy of Family Physicians for ten years; was selected in 1981 by Good Housekeeping magazine as one of Ten Most Outstanding Family Physicians in the United States, was Family Physician of the Year of Tennessee in 1982, was recipient of the Marise Lightfoot Community Service Award and was a member of the Fellow of American Academy Physicians. He was a member of First United Methodist Church in Mt. Pleasant where he had taught Sunday School for many years.